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cylinder
Object Type
cylinder
Museum number
60034
Description
Clay tablet, complete, Late Babylonian.
Authority
Ruler:
Nebuchadnezzar II
Cultures/periods
Neo-Babylonian Dynasty
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Hormuzd Rassam
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Sippar (historic)
(?)
Materials
fired clay
Dimensions
Diameter:
4.76 centimetres
Length:
12.06 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Leichty E 1986a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum: Volume VI: Tablets from Sippar, I
(p.299)
Taylor J 2018 / Keilschriftartefakte: Untersuchungen zur Materialität von Keilschriftdokumenten / Some Practicalities and Aethestics of Mesopotamian Foundation Prisms and Cylinders
Location
Not on display
Acquisition date
1882
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
60034
Registration number
1882,0714.4444
Conservation
Treatment
: 25 Jul 1990